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I don't know how much room you have on your truck, but you can set up a vacuum system pretty easy. They make pumps that run off of your belt drive off the engine. Put a small tank in the rig with a hose to reach your problem area and your done. It would be a fairly significant investment of money and space, but it would be alot less "stuff" in the work area with you.

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no real room on the van for anything like a vac system; if I did that I'd go with a trailered pumper or a pumper truck and then we're back to making it complicated.

those marine macerators may be the ticket; it looks like jabsco may make an ac version. found a rep that is looking into it.

there is an ac version, $425 is the cheapest I've found it so far... it's kind of big (1 1/2" inlet, 1" discharge), but would have to be to suck a wad of paper up to where it can grind it.

it's kinda rinkydink. its just a big version of those little rubber spider pumps with a cutter blade wiping over a port on the inlet, but I think it would handle paper.

it's not a submersible, so it would sit beside the flange and suck out of a suction hose in the flange.

$425 is a little much to find out, but I may pull the trigger. If I do I'll let you know how it works.

may go the inverted 3x2 sant t flange on flange route to a sump pump; that could be a cool setup too, but it fails where there is a floor drain you didn't see and plug off, or when your rag pops out, or when you fail to get the thing popped and you've got the whole system full 12" deep.